Paitalt ItislNtfrialL THURSDAY, NOVEMB CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES,. SECOND PAGE—THE FAMILY CIRCLE: The Mystic Union—The Fugitive Slave and the hood-Old Pair of Stocking Puritan Child- Age—Moral Responsibility. THIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE: Guthrie on the Parables: " The Parables Read in the Light of the Present Day"—Meredith's " The Apple of Life"—Children's Department: New ton's "Bible Blessings"—Sewell's "Lost Child, a Ballad of English Life: and the Romance of :Manes Scrub"—Eyster's " Sunny Hours: or, Child Life of Tom and Mary"—" The M.rtyrs of the Cata combs; a Tole of Anctentßome"—" Turning over a New Lear —Variety Library—Earnest Christian LibrarY; ' Plain Words on Christian Living:" The Cross of Christ:" " The Soul Gatherer" — Periodi eah and Pamphlets—Literary Items, American and Foreign. SIXTH PAGE--CORRESPONDENCE: Wm. Foster in America—Why the Minister did so at the Inquiry-Meeting---Noah's Enduring Faith— Temptation and SuffennE• SEVENTH PAGE—RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE : Presbyterian—CongregationaP—Episcopal—Metho dist—Baptist. RURAL ECONOMY: Practical Management of Muck in Composting—Morgan Horses—North Caro lina as a Producing State—Care of Sheep in Win ter. THE FALL ELECTIONS Last week closed a series of elections ie. markable In the political history of the • • thoic. • • `•,". • • • . my the New England States; not only the great States of New York, Pennsylvania, and OhtO; not only the radical commonwealths of the Northwest and the growing empires of the Pacific coast have manfully main tained their position of loyalty, now become second nature, but even New Jersey has been wrested from the tyranny of her rail road corporations and brought from her shameful atitude of antagonism to emanci pation and of subserviency to the slave power. The liberation of New Jersey I It is as cheering as the, news of a great vic tory on the field, and it took men like the chivalrous and bold Kilpatrick, who hal received his training in actual conflict wit armed rebellion, to , sweep away the last miserable remnants of its allies at home into a darkness which we may hope will be that of endless oblivion. We cannot for bear quoting the pleasantry of our contem porary of the Evening Bulletin on this au spicious result : 7 ,-- READMISSION OF NEW JERSEY INTO THE UNION. • New Jersey has been for a long time in a state of secession from the Union, and the Government has been sorely troubled by its failure to restore her practical re lations." After using various amicable means without, effect, it became necessary to send a force into that benighted .region to-subdue the rebellion. Accordingly a strong army, under the gallant General Kilpatrick, has been raiding through the State for several weeks past, and a decisive battle was fought yesterday, resulting in a glorious victory to the Union arms. The stipulations of the President in reference to the restoration of conquered States are to be at once complied with. The Constitu tional amendment is to be ratified, the rebel debt of disloyalty, a large portion of which is held in New Jersey, is to be at once re pudiated, and ample guarantees are to be given that the freedmen, who have just been emancipated from Copperhead .bond age, shall be protected in their rights of freedom and independence. Thus the last stronghold of the rebellion has fallen. Justice ThOmpson may now comfort himself with the thought that the war is about over. New Jersey, the last of the seceding States, is restored by the invading armies of patriotism and truth, to her " practical relations to the Union," and we shall now be able to go, without passports, to Atlantic City and Cape May, and feel that we have not passed over one foot of foreign soil. New Jersey, readmit ted to the Union, has a glorious career be fore her, and under the fostering care or Governor Ward she will enter upon it, re ioicing to feel that she is once more safe ander the old flag. What this unanimous decision of the majority in every State means, is so plain that he who runs may read. It, means that the attachment of the mass of our people to the principles involved in our struggle is stronger and more wide-spread, now that the war is over, than it was during the actual prevalence of the conflict. Though the pressure pf immediate and awful peril in past, and though the cause becomes a moral one and its bearings respect the fu ture rather than.the present, no disposition is shown to abandon it or treat it within difference. The nation re-endorses it, re cognizes it as•part of its unalterable policy, crystallizes its new political life around it. In short, the questions of a firm and solid nationality, a constitutional, utter, and im mediate abolition or slavery without com pensation, an adequate provision for the in dustrial and educational wants and for the rights of the freedmen, and a genuine, hearty submission to the national authority and a dismission of sectional pretensions and usurpations from every quarter of the land now and forever, are removed from the sphere of partisan politics, just as much as are the simplest questions lying at the foundation of republican government. The lections during "the war intimated it, the first election in time of peace 'definitely settles it. The 'elections mean plainly that the peo ple are in-no haste to be put into relations of political equality with the lately rebel lious South. Such haste was almost the only distinctive feature in the Democratic Policy.* They insisted, in accordance with *-The Copperhead N. Y. World said that in the defeat of the Democratic party, President Johnson's . plan for the immediate restoration of the Union is defeated also. TA - F, AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN-, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865 the demands of their former political mas ters in the South, upon the immediate and unquestioned admission of the Southern delegations into Congress, even though com posed of men notorious for the virulence of their conduct during the rebellion. With this issue prominently before them, the peo ple indignantly rebuked, spurned, and we may say CRUSHED, the party that . offered it. Their NO, echoed from Massachusetts to Minnesota, is one of astonishment that men laying claim to common shrewdness should expect them to submit to the an nulling of the advantages gained by four sears of terrible war, of incalculable expense of treasure and blood, and should quietly allow the surviving authors and abettors of this enormous and inexcusable mischief, defiant, impenitent, with the very crack of the plantation whip in their tones, to seat themselves again in the places of power and trust in the land, as if nothing had happened ! The Democratic party came before the people with this issue, and the Democratic party is as effectually over whelmed as were the scoffing antediluvians after the forty days and forty nights of rain. New Jersey was their last refuge, but the .---,,..vi r 00-oe'ecittstfttetat —s-- as orad, by the union of the restored rebel leaders at the South with the conservatives, the Irish Catholics, the lottery-dealers, the rum interest and the fawning place-hunters of the North is at an end. Certain organs of opinion which have been trimming their sails for a " Conservative" reaction among the people, as the National Intelligencer, of Washington; the Public Ledger, of this city (almost outand out Democratic) ; the Louis ville Journal, the New York Times, and the New York Observer; certain religious bodies, as that represented in the late Tri ennal Convention held in this city, and that misrepresented in recent Synodical assem blies in Kentucky, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, will doubtless take notice and gather wisdom from these facts. And we think Congress and the Administration will understand them as a popular demon stration too vast and too solemn to be trifled with by weak; slip-shod, compromisinc , methods of dealing with a conquered but impenitent rebellion. RECONSTRUCTION AT A STAND-STILL, Those who have felt that the process of re organization has been pushed too rapidly, and that the national safety demanded great er caution in dealing with the unrepentant rebels of the South, - will rejoice to observe that the Executive has brought the move ment to a full pauie. The Provisional Gov ernors appointed by the President in North and South Carolina, are ordered to continue in the exercise of their official functions, thus virtually annulling for the time being the elections for Governor, just held in those States; and very specific explanations of what will be expected of those and other States lately in rebellion before they can regain their status in the Union, have been issued from the State Department at Washington. Mr. Seward writes Provisional Governor Perry, of South Carolina, that the President " Observes with regret that neither the Con vention nor the State Legislature has pro nounced debts and obligations contracted in the name of the State for unconstitutional, and even rebellious purposes, to be void. Tie equally regrets that the State seems to de cline the Congressional amendment of the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery. " I telegraphed to you yesterday as follows : The President directs me to write to you that an early adoption of the Constitutional Amendment of the Constitution of the Uni ted States abolishing slavery, by the South Carolina Legislature, is deemed peculiarly .important and especially desirable with refer ence to the general situation of the Union. I have now only to say, that the President's opinions, heretofore expressed, remain un changed." In reply to a delegation of North Caro linians, members of the late Convention, and others, who visited the President, November' 10, to solicit his aid in securing the admis sion of the Congressional delegates from that State who cannot take the oath, the Presi dent replied, acknoWledging that much' had been done to restore the State " to her proper natural relations, but," he added, some thing yet remains to be done to render that restoration immediately practicable. An acceptance of the Congressional Amendment abolishing slavery throughout the United States by the Legislature of the State of North Carolina, is in my judgment practically important to the successful restoration which is so much desired by all." In regard to the admission of the Con gressional delegation, he gave them no light or comfort whatever, simply saying : " with out answering specifically the questions you have proposed to me, it will be sufficient to 'say that my action must depend upon events, and that Mr. Holden will again be instructed to continue the exercise of his functions as Provisional Governor until he shall have been expressly relieved by orders to that effect."' These are important steps in the right direction and are fitted to inspire hope that the large and permanent interests of the country are not to be sacrificed in a hasty zeal to restore the external relations of the States. Now, let the Government go earnestly to work with investigations into the real re sponsibility for the starving of our prisoners, hold every rebel military and civil official of any standing liable for a share of the guilt until the truth is disclosed, and set the solemn seal of judicial condemnation, broad and deep upon rebellion itself, and the country will be prepared to yield large and generous confidence to its chosen rulers and their asso ciates in office. MASON & HAMLIN'S CABINET ORGAN. —Sixteen new premiums have been awarded to this instrument in, the last six weeks. (See advertisements.) Rv.v. MR. BARNES resumed service in the First Presbyterian Church laSt Sab bath after a considerable interruption from sickness. A large congregation was in attendance. Mr. Barnes' theme was the adding of fifteen years to the life of Hezekiah. :May the prophetic intimations of the passage be more than realized in the life of the honored pastor of the First Church. THE SABBATH SCHOOLS of Oki. Pine St. Church had one of their grand anni versary occasions last Sabbath. The building was crowded in every part. The three schools : Pine St., Brainerd Mission, and Robert Raikes, are in a highly prosperous condition. Addresses were delivered by the pastor, Dr. BraiA erd and by Rev. J. H. Suydam. A neiiv schoo.l-house is being erected for the Brainerd school, which will be ready in three weeks, and will accommodate 500 scholarg. TABOR. CHutCH. - Sixteen pelsons were received into this church si the communion service last Sabbath ; th keen on profession, three by letter. 0i the former, the ages ranged frOm niarly !ugg.#4,1„..4. down to a Igen A VETERAN.—There is probably no person who has any familiarity with Sabbath School affairs in this city, who does not know, or know of, A. Martin, Esq., generally called Father Martini At a late Sabbath School anniversary in the Fifth Baptist 'clibrch in'this city, he was present by invitation, and stated that the 15th of last month was his fif tieth anniversary in this good cause, being one of the nine individuals who organized. the first Sunday School in this city, in September, 1815. He seated that he had visited and addressed from four to six schools and congregations every Sunday, walking from six to eight l miles, and aided in the organization of over a hundred mission schoola,twenty five of which have become place? ,of worship. LATE ITEMS.—The Roman Catholics, having recently purchased a building at 38th and Sycamore Sts., Mantua, or merly used by the Episcopalians, it was dedicated as St. Agatha's Church last Sabbath. Bishop Wood, in his discourse, said there were 125,000 Catholics in this city. Rev. E. B. Beadle was installed Pas tor of the 2nd. (0. S.) Presbyterian Church in this city last Sabbath evening. Rev. B. T. Lowrie was ordained and installed pastor of the Bethany Alia on, formerly of the Broad St. Indepenl ent Church, by the (0. S.) Presbytery ). of Philadelphia on Sabbath evening. .‘ Colonization.—On Saturday, the 1114,1, the usual fall expedition of the American Colinization Society was despatched from Baltimore, comprising one hundred and seventy-four persons, men, women, and children. These were all of the class known as " Freedmen," and were from Lynchburg, Virginia, and its vicinity. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS.—It is well that official proclamations should be short and terse. That of President Johnson, published in our last week's paper, recommending the observance of the first Thursday in December as a day of public National' Thanksgiving, cer tainly possesses these qualities. We presume, however, that the people of the land, without meaning to be fastidiously' critical, will very generally regret the, absence of any word characterizing that', " fearful scourge of civil war" mentioned, or any more distinct allusion to the over throw of American slavery, than is con tained in the vague phrase, " a great, enlargement of civil liberty." We pub lish to-day the Thanksgiving proclama tion of our Pennsylvania Executive, Gov. Curtin. It is, in these particulars, refreshingly unambiguous. We are, how ever, sorry to add that, like the Presi dent's, it fails to make any mention of the blessings of redemption, or to contain any distinctly Christian sentiment. Bishop Stevens, of the Pennsylvania Diocese, has issued his Episcopal recom mendation for the observance of the day. In naming the causes for Thanksgiving, he simply repeats, in' quotation marks, those named by the President, and goes no farther. He also appoints a prayer, to be used immediately after the prayer, in the Thanksgiving Service." The form thus appointed has, in its Thanksgiving sentences, only the. following : "We bless and praise, we laud and mag nify Thy glorious name, for all Thy goodness to the people of this land, and especially for that it hath pleased Thee to relieve our be loved country from the fearful scourge of civil war, and to permit us to secure the blessings of peace, unity, and liberty. And further, we bless and thank Thee that Thou has kgpt us from the calamities of foreign war, pesti lence, and famine, and given to us the fruits of an abundant harvest." A fine opportunity was here presented to the Bishop, in part at least, to remove from that portion of the Church which is under his administration the odium brought upon it by the absolute refusal of the Triennial Convention to think God for the destruction of slavery in the land. EN has deliberately allowed it to pass. THE Mining Press Bays, that, during the present Beason there will be 500 stamps add ed to the present mill capacities in Nevada, and mostly in the Reese River and Humbolt regions. This shows a decided increase in the mining businessof the State, and affords most indubitable evidence that mining, as a pursuit, is generally found profitable to those engaged in it throughout the State of Nevada. CORRESPONDING EDITOR. FROM OUR In 1830, there was a farmer, whom, for convenience, we will call Mr. W., living about sixty miles from this city. He was then forty-five•years of age, and was " without God, and without hope in the world." It was the time of the great revivals in this region, while Mr. Finney was preaching with such extra ordinary power in this place. Two elders of the church in the town where Mr. W. resided, came down to Rochester to see for themselves what great things the Lord was doing. They passed a few days, and caught something of the fire of the occasion, and went home to work for Christ. They began visiting from house to house, for conversation and prayer among their neighbors. They wanted also to hold a prayer -meeting in a certain locality, but there was no convenient place, except at the house of Mr. W., and as he was not a Christian, they felt considerable hesi tation about asking such a favor of him. Finally, however, they ventured * pro pose having the meeting at his house. He assented very readily, " on account," he said, " of his invalid wife—she would lenjciy it, as she could not get out to ' - ' 4, - ,,,,, e-Sabbath." In this state- _spoke one word for his wife, and two for himself." With an interest even deeper than he at first thought possible, this man pre pared his large kitchen with temporary seats for the contemplated meeting. The hour arrived, the room was throng ed. The meeting was opened with a hymn, and already the place seemed, even to this unconverted man, to be " full of the Holy Ghost." After the singing, all were requested to kneel while prayer should be offered. All prostra ted themselves befgre God ; many, be side Mr. W., for the first time in all their lives, bowing the knee to the Lord their Maker. After the lapse of thirty-five years, Mr. W. still speaks of that moment as one of awful solemnity. A sense of the Divine presence and love was overpow ering. As the meeting proceeded, Mr. W. hoped there would be some oppor tunity for him, at least, to ask the pray ers of God's children. An opportunity was offered, and he expressed his earn est desire in this respect. He was de termined to be a Cl}ristian ; and imme diately his soul was filled with unex pected peace, and love, and joy. He did not then know that he had passed from death unto life ; bat he afterward learned and believed that then and there the, Lord met him, and sealed him for his own. He soon after made public profession of his faith in Christ; was, in a few years, made an elder in the church ; and was a member of thp General Assembly of 1838, at - Phila delpftia, when Dr. Samuel Fisher was Moderator; also, a delegate to the As sembly in Cleveland, in 1851, when Dr. Samuel W. Fisher was Moderator; and has been an honored' and consistent member of the church to this time ; an intelli gent, earnest, able man. Several others were supposed to be converted on thit same evening, in his kitchen, where he found the Lord; and they, too, have run well ; and that *as the way the revivals of those days spread from place to place.; and this was a. part of that " fanaticism," which, spread, at that ;time, over Western New York. But it would be wrong to sup pose that Mr. W. had not before thought of the subject of religion. He had thouht much. The Spirit had been strivifig with many in all the region. They were ready to hear the church say " Come," just as much as the three thousand were in the day of Pentecost. And may we not hope for such times again? And is it fanaticism to have sin ners converted, and hold on their way, in honor and usefulness to a good old age ? OUR TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. The friends - of Temperance in Roches, ter, have been holding occasional meet ings for a few weeks past, trying to awaken a new interest in this great and blessed reform. Gen. Riley, the long tried and able friend of the cause, is, perhaps, the principal instigator of the movement. The meetings have not been very largely attended as yet, and have not excited the interest which the cause should command ; but a • new Society has been formed, with D. D. T. Moore, Esq., our esteemed Mayor, for President, and it is intended by this that something shall be done to stay the ravages of intemperance around us. And if they would thus organize anew in every city, and all go to work, it would seem as though something might be done. SUCCESSFUL AT VAST Rev. Dr. Heacock, of Buffalo, has been down for the. third time to try to recover the remains of his lamented brother, Capt. R. B. Ifeacock, who fell in battle near Spottsylvania, in May, 1864, ,and his, numerous and sympathiz- Mg friends will greatly rejoice to learn that his search this time has been re warded with success. In June last, he went to the spot, and had, perhaps, a dozen bodies exhumed, but could not Ind the right one. This time he was accompanied by an officer of the same regiment with his brother, who was near him when he fell, and also by the widow of the deceased, and .the identification. seems complete. It will be remembered that Captain Heacock was killed with a shell. His skull was crushed, and ribs were broken, but he was recognized by his clothing. The remains were to be brought to Buffa lo for burial. A CHURCH ON OICAND ISLAND This island, it is known, is in Niagara river, between Buffalo and the Falls, about nine miles long, and in some places six miles wide. It was this island which Mordecai M. Noah, in 1826, pro posed to purchase for the interests of Israel. Here the Jews were do be gathered from all parts of the earth, to build a great city of their own, and here to maintain their ancient rites . . Mr. Noah went so far as to erect a monu ment in advance, to commemorate the gathering of the tribes, which is still standing, is fifteen feet high and covered with sutable inscriptions. But the tribes were never gathered here, and instead of it, there now stands upon the island, for the accommodation of the surrounding population, a small Christian church of the New England kith and order. Rev. J. L. Burnett, of ockport, was Moderator of the Coun cil, by which the church was duly con stituted and the house of worship dedi cated, on the Ist instant. Rev. J. S Barris, recently of North Evans, is pas tor of the new flock thus gathered. PERSONAL ld Mas.. 6.-4XPvtP-4-.Z.birida course before the Young Men's Chris tian Union, of Buffalo, in the Lafayette Street Church. His subject was " The Visions of Youth and of Age Contrasted," and the lecture is spoken of as one of great interest and real value. The Doctor also lectured in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and passed through our city on Tuesday last, returning to his home, looking well and apparently much pleased with his trip. Prof Hopkins, of Atiburn, is to lec ture in Buffalo, in the same course, on the 13th, on "Dante." C. P. B ROCHESTER, November 11, 1865. FROM OUR EAST TENNESSEE COR RESPONDENT. Farmers emigrating .to E. Tennessee.—A Vir ginia Bankrupt—A Surgeon under a Cloud. Thomas Jefferson.—Rebel feeling in S. W. Virginia.—Cotton planting under Afficul ties.--Freedmen in. Annapolis.— Supereroga tion, etc. KNOXVILLE, E. TENN., Nov. 6, 1865 MR. EDITOR : —Let your farmers emigra ting to this region come prepared to lead the way in all the improvements in agriculture. The blight of slavery has affected our harvests for half a 'century. Land that will produce sixty bushels of corn to the acre for a series -of years, has not averaged over from seven to ten bushels of wheat per acre. Improper tillage, doubtless, has had much to do with this scanty result. Shallow plowing has been the almost universal custom ; so that after a hard rain the soil is like a mortar bed, and in time of drouth, it becomes hard almost as a brick. As an instance of unsuccessful farm ing in a slave State, I may mention the case of a man in Smith County, Virginia, who owned ninety thousand acres of land—most of it good land—and a large interest in the Washington County salt works, and yet his expenses ran so ahead of his income that in one year he felt constrained to sell one hun dred and five negroes—forty of them good field hands—to keep his head above water. At length matters came to a crisis. He found himself involved to the extent of $387,000, and he was sold out of house and home, and changed his residence to a different part of the State. His home at Abingdon, valued at, $30,000, was purchased by the friends of Martha Washington College, and is now use d as a seminary of learning. A.few days since I was summoned as a wit ness in a Court Martial case, examined at Annapolis, Maryland. A hospital chaplain by ex parte pressure was dismissed from the service. He called for investigation, and during the trial, a surgeon from Pennington, New Jersey, who had been very officious in working against the chaplain, was shown up in a very unenviable light. One witness tes tified that he was a Copperhead or Northern traitor, and others, that his general reputa tion ras that of a want of sympathy with the Government. It appeared in evidence that the chaplain was untiring in the performance of his duties, and his commission may be restored to him. ' As I was passing by Monticello, Virginia, a planter pointed out the place to me, and remarked that his father owned one of the mulatto children of Thomas Jefferson, from which it appeared that the great statesman had some Sectional views of negro equality. In this connection I am reminded of a con versation which Captain Haven, of Ohio, had with a Kentucky lady a few months since, in a• stage-- "0, Captain," said the lady, "I was at Cynthiana the other day, and I saw a negro man who had married a white woman, and. had a lot of children. What do you think of that?" "While you were in Ohio," replied the captain, I was down among your folks in Kentucky, making observations, and let me tell you what I saw. • I saw a rich Kentucky planter who had a lot of children by a negro woman, and they were never married. What do you think of that case ?" " Well," said she, "if it has to be done, it ought to be done legally." The rebel feeling in Southwestern Virginia is of the Christian Observer type. Traitor ministers are atria premium. At Wytheville and Marion they are making some arrange ments to employ Dr. Mitchell; of Lynchburg. The Doctor has intimated if they will give him a thousand dollars a year, that he will give up his present charge and preach to them. Rev. Mr. Hickman, Old School min ister at Wytheville, shouldered his musket to oppose the advance of General Averill, and was killed, six miles from Dublin—" fighting gallantly," in rebel phrase, to uphold the cause of treason. • I traveled with a Maryland planter who had been in Georgia raising cotton, awl:vane away in utter disgust. A negro man didnot work exactly to please him, and he thrashes him. The Provost Marshal arrested him and fined him fifteen dollars. A negro woman after wards did not do exactly to suit him and he gave her a beating. He was again arrested and fined ten dollars. Like Dr. Jacks in the hos pital at Helena, Ark., he could not get along with " niggers" without beating them, and so, instead of adapting himself to the situation, he came back to Maryland. He had been in the rebel army four years, and surrendered with General Johnson. He believed that if General Lee's plan of arming the negroes had been adopted two years ago, the independence of the "Southern Confederacy would have been established. At Annapolis, the colored people have many grievances. Last week the proprietor of the City Hotel had a mother arrested and thrown in jail, because she wished her children, he still kept under his control, to follow her di rection. On Frid a y last a colored woman, whose head was badly cut by a brick thrown by a white man, vent to a magistrate's office for justice. Go out or my office," said the justice of the peace ; " I have nothing to do with you. You know 1 13. t anigger can't give testimony against a 'w it , man ." Her husband has been a soldier in the United States army for two years, and for eleven months of that time held as prisone r of war. taii.-soute-or mese •fants beture the Freed men's Bureau at Washington. In traveling, I fell in with a Virginian Union man, who had been driven from his house and plundered of about $25,000 worth of property by the rebels. He had gone armed to Abingdon for the purpose of killing Mr. Trigg, who had forced his crazy brother into the rebel army, and grossly insulted him on several occasions. Mr. Trigg owes his life to his being absent from home. The positive Union men of Virginia are beginning to or ganize, and to act with greater boldness, de termined that the old pro-slavery aristocracy —the cause of all their woes—shall rule them no more. The colonel of a Georgia regiment remarked to me at Lynchburg, that he was an original secessionist; that he wept like a child when General Lee surrendered; that they had been whipped—terribly whipped— and as God had decided the matter against the South, he was willing to accept the result in good faith and to lay hold and help repair the wastes of war. To get rid of the Freed men's Bureau, he was willing to legalize ne gro testimony. Such men, however, natur ally rally around their old standard-bearers and will try to lifthem to power. Those who regarded their stituggle as a rich man's war and a poor man's fight., are more or less suspicious of the old aristocratic leaders, and in the reconstruction of both Church and State, many of them are beginning to watch matters much more carefully than in former years. There must be several canvasses, however, before the people will understand their strength and succeed in putting right men in the right places. Henry Ward Beecher's humiliating eulogy of General Lee is set down as a proof that some Protestants believe in doing works of supererogation. The Lord had no prominent positions for Lucifer or any of his rebel clan, after the great war in heaven between Mi chael and his angels and the Dragon and his angels, when Michael prevailed, but their place was found no more in heaven. Nor have we any account of any loyal angel taking the rostrum in behalf of any of the wicked leaders in the grand rebellion against the starry banner of Jehovah. Yours very truly, SAMUEL SAWYER. A REVIVAL IN THE RIGHT PLACE.- A correspondent writes to the Evange list that the Ripley Female College is being blessed with a rich outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Large numbers are being brought to the foot of cross. Christians, too, are being awakened; they are being armed with fresh zeal to work in " the field which is ready to the harvest." In .this College, numbering over one hundred students, a goodly number have yielded their all, and con secrated themselves to the Lord to work for him. All the school prayer-meetings are full to overflowing. On a late Sab bath evening about thirty of the young ladies rose and told of their desires, their hopes, and their love ; after which a goodly number, too timid to speak, rose, and in this way expressed their desire to become children of God, and asking prayers in their behalf. Surely and steadily this happy work is progressing. A PATTERN MOVEMENT.—We find in a report of the proceedings of the Synod of Wabash, the. following :—" Rev. J. W. Dulles delivered a straight-forward and business-like address on the relation of the Press to the work of the Church. The Synod heartily endorsed the publi cation, enterprise ; and, in addition, it resolved to employ a colporteur who shall distribute among our congregations. the' works issued by our Publication Commit tee. It is hoped, that within a few weeks this colporteur will be engaged in his work." We have often thought of col portage as a very desirable agency for the wide diffusion of the issues of our Publication Committee, and we see not why a measure like the above, should not be co-extensive with our Church. WHO ARE INVITED f—We clip the fol lowing from the Presbyterian of last week, for the purpose of inquiring, in view of the lines which we have itali cized, how far ib is really meant that the invitation shall extend. In the fair sense, it would be a new and promising feature in the piritual interest of our city : " MINISTERIAL Mv.rrrNo.—A meeting of the ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the oi,ty of Philadelphia will be held in the rooms of the Board of Education on Monday next, 11th inst., at four o'clock. P. M. The meeting is entirely for devotional purposes, and it is intended to continue it from week to week. All the ministers of "our churches are affectionately invited to attend.'
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